Property bubble

House prices have certainly risen a lot in recent years. But this doesn't mean that Portugal has or will have a property bubble, as there is still a short supply of housing and resilient employment.

Around three hundred people accepted the challenge thrown down by Massimo Forte and Gonçalo Nascimento Rodrigues, specialists and independent consultants in mediation and real estate investments, to think about the "Out of the Box" market (referring to the real estate and financial sector opinion bl

Not only is Porto in fashion, it's on the radar. Whose radar? That of investors and international markets.

Too much demand and too little supply – it’s a scenario that continues to fuel the rise in the property prices. In the last year alone, prices have increased by 12.8%, the largest increase since 1992, according to data from Confidencial Imobiliário (Ci).

The limitations of the supply of real estate and the increase in prices in the centres of the main cities are pushing many Portuguese families to a life in the outskirts. This is a trend that, according to the real estate agency Century 21, is here to stay.

More houses and cheaper. In the end, though, where are these houses? Nowhere. The Portuguese real estate market is in the middle of a drama: there is a lot of demand and little supply at affordable prices.

One catamaran, 50 real estate professionals and just one aim: to explore the land of the three projects that make up Lisbon South Bay.

The ‘Cidade da Água’, City of Water, which will be built on the old Lisnave lands in Almada, is well underway.

Before the Property Bubble: Every single region in Portugal has seen property prices fall since the end of 2007 thanks to the global economic crisis. There was a small uplift in 2009 but then another steady drop until 2014, when the economy started to pick up again.